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9 QlikView File
A QlikView document is a file containing everything needed to analyze the data:
l the data itself
l the script needed to update the QlikView file with new data from the data source
l layout information, including all the sheets, list boxes, charts, etc.
l document alerts, document bookmarks and document reports
l access restriction information
l macro module
It is thus very easy to distribute information using QlikView files. The analysis can be made independently
of the location of the original data or network conditions. QlikView documents are a way to share information
with users that do not have access to the original data source.
9.1 QlikView Project Files
It is possible to save a QlikView document into several files that can be used for versioning. Each file
defines a property of the document, a sheet, an object, the script etc.
Each time the document is opened and an object or a setting is changed, these changes are saved to the different
files, making it easy to follow the changes made in the document. This way it is also possible to see
who made a change and to which part of the document.
To create these project files it is necessary to create a folder next to the qvw file with the same name as the
QlikView document and add -prj, e.g. the project folder for a document called Finance.qvw should be
Finance-prj.
Note!
No data from the document will be saved in the project files.
Files in the Project Folder
The file QlikView.txt contains a list of all the objects part of the QlikView document.
The different sheets and objects in the list are named after their object ID. The project files are:
l QlikView.txt - contains a list of all the files included in the project
l AllProperties.xml
l DocProperties.xml
l DocInternals.xml
l TopLayout.xml
l LoadScript.txt - contains the document load script
l Module.txt - contains the document macro code, if any exists
l Module.txt - a single file is created for every sheet. In addition the files contain references to all
the sheet objects on the sheet.
l Separate files are also created for every sheet object:
l LB.xml
l SB.xml
l MB.xml
l TB.xml
l CH.xml
l IB.xml
l CS.xml
l BU.xml
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